Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Photo of Minamata Disease - Water Pollution Image

Photo of Minamata Disease by William Eugene Smith
1971 or 1972 - Minamata, Japan

Pollution Images Info - On the Japanese island of Kyushu, we see a picture of a mother bathing her daughter was 16 years old are exposed to toxins from the fetus. His daughter named Tomoko Uemura, she was physically handicapped, paralyzed and blind since birth due to mercury poisoning in Minamata local industrial environment, Japan, the water supply.
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